The G-8 Sticks 8 Noses Into Antibiotic Resistance

Jun 13, 2013

The G-8's science ministers have turned their ears to the relationship of antibiotic resistance and animal agriculture—worrying about the various aspects from the need for new, efficacious, drugs to the impact of current practices on resistance in both animal and human drugs. Global Meat News reports.

Schmallenberg Virus (SBV)

Kalbi Flank Steak for Father’s Day

We'll take more steak in our steak, thank you, but this PBS suggestion sounds like it might be quite tasty and probably adequate for sissier dads. Anyhow, it’s nice to see PBS saying something nice about beef. Keep those pledges coming.

Let Us Now Consider the Canine Person

Yale will host a most curious conference this winter as part of its "Nonhuman rights project." The host groups will include the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, the Nonhuman Rights Project, the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, the Yale Animal Ethics Group and the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. (Not really. We were just kidding about NCBA. They weren't invited. But the others are real groups of people who think they have a cause and acronym that will support them.)

We Grazers try not to waste your time with a lot of verbiage on this site, but consider this peculiar passage from the Nonhuman Rights website:

Special consideration will be given to discussions of nonhuman animal personhood, both in terms of understanding the history, science, and philosophy behind personhood, and ways to protect animal interests through the establishment of legal precedents and by increasing public awareness.

By the close of the conference, attendees will have gained an enhanced understanding of the neurological, cognitive, and behavioral underpinnings of personhood and those traits required for such consideration; personhood theory; the history of personhood consideration and status (both in terms of philosophical and legal conceptions); and the legal hurdles and requirements for granting personhood status outside of the human species.

Whoa. Wait. Did somebody just say, "personhood status outside of the human species?" How do we connect all those words together in that order? Very mysterious.